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Taghvaee, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
Sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks will be even more heterogeneous and dense as compared to Fifth Generation (5G) and other legacy networks. Thus, the 6G architecture will need to be adapted to serve the ever-evolving ...
Paillissé Vilanova, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Overlay networks are a technique to build a new network on top of an existing one. They are a key tool to add functionality to existing networks, and are used in different layers of the Internet stack for a wide variety ...
Bosch Pons, Jaume (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
Heterogeneous platforms had become popular to increase the computational power of the systems within a constrained power budget. They are present in several systems, from embedded platforms and mobile devices to high-end ...
Barredo Ferreira, Adrián (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
The rate of annual data generation grows exponentially. At the same time, there is a high demand to analyze that information quickly. In the past, every processor generation came with a substantial frequency increase, ...
D'Amico, Marco (Date of defense: 2021-06-10)
In recent years, high-performance computing research became essential in pushing the boundaries of what men can know, predict, achieve, and understand in the experimented reality. HPC Workloads grow in size and complexity ...
Bellver Bueno, Míriam (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)
Computer vision plays a key role in Artificial Intelligence because of the rich semantic information contained in pixels and the ubiquity of cameras nowadays. Multimedia content is on a rise since social networks have such ...
Maroñas, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)
High Performance Computing (HPC) systems have been evolving over time to adapt to the scientific community requirements. We are currently approaching to the Exascale era. Exascale systems will incorporate a large number ...
Buchaca Prats, David (Date of defense: 2021-01-14)
In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the demand of Cloud Computing resources executed in Data Centers. Modern Data Centers are complex systems that need management. As distributed computing systems ...
Silfa, Franyell (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
Deep Learning algorithms have been remarkably successful in applications such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. Thus, these kinds of applications are ubiquitous in our lives and are found in a plethora ...
Segura Salvador, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-02-18)
Graph processing is an established and prominent domain that is the foundation of new emerging applications in areas such as Data Analytics and Machine Learning, empowering applications such as road navigation, social ...
Trilla Rodríguez, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) are the subset of embedded systems with timing constraints whose miss behavior can endanger human lives or expensive equipment. To provide evidence of correctness, CRTES are ...
Ciaccia, Francesco (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Nowadays massive amounts of data are being moved over the Internet thanks to data-hungry applications, Big Data, and multimedia content. Combined with a reduction in cost and augmented reliability for high-speed broadband ...
Caheny, Paul (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
In the middle of the 2000s a fundamental change of course occurred in computer architecture because techniques such as frequency scaling and instruction level parallelism were providing rapidly diminishing returns. Since ...
Campos Camúñez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
Deep learning has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade. Although the development of these techniques spans over several years, the recent advent of deep learning is explained by an increased ...
Dimić, Vladimir (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
Following Moore's Law, the number of transistors on chip has been increasing exponentially, which has led to the increasing complexity of modern processors. As a result, the efficient programming of such systems has become ...
Riera Villanueva, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved tremendous success for cognitive applications, and are especially efficient in classification and decision making problems such as speech recognition or machine translation. Mobile ...
Sengupta, Souvik (Date of defense: 2020-10-20)
Technology in the twenty-first century is rapidly developing and driving us into a new smart computing world, and emerging lots of new computing architectures. Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) is among one of them, which emerges to ...
Rejiba, Zeineb (Date of defense: 2020-09-10)
The recent development of delay-sensitive applications has led to the emergence of the fog computing paradigm. Within this paradigm, computation nodes present at the edge of the network can act as fog nodes (FNs) capable ...
Ramón-Cortés Vilarrodona, Cristián (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
Data Science workflows have become a must to progress in many scientific areas such as life, health, and earth sciences. In contrast to traditional HPC workflows, they are more heterogeneous; combining binary executions, ...
Suárez-Varela Macià, José Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Significant breakthroughs in the last decade in the Machine Learning (ML) field have ushered in a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Particularly, recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have enabled to develop a new ...